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UK beaches blighted by balloons and discarded bags of dog poo | Environment | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/22/uk-beaches-balloons-dog-poo?intcmp=122

Dog poo wrapped in plastic bags discarded by careless owners has emerged as one of the biggest single threats to the health and safety of beach visitors, a marine conservation charity has warned. [...]

The charity says the volume of dog excrement in bags left on UK beaches rose 11% between 2010 and 2011. Scotland recorded the biggest increase – 71% in one year.

MCS Beachwatch officer Lauren Davis says the findings reveal good and bad habits: "We’re delighted that pet owners enjoy dog-friendly beaches and clearly think ahead by carrying poop-scoop bags. But we hope our findings will now encourage them to take the bag off the beach and bin it in one of the many receptacles provided for the job.

#excréments #plages #pollution

Sellafield: ’Everything was contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course’ (The Observer)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-book-nuclear-accident

I t says something for how Britain’s nuclear establishment worked from the start that when Windscale No1 Pile caught fire in October 1957, it was hushed up so well that even with 11 tons of uranium ablaze for three days, the reactor close to collapse and radioactive material spreading across the Lake District, the people who worked there were expected to keep quiet and carry on making plutonium for the bomb. (...) Source: The Observer

Sellafield: ’It was all contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course’
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-book-nuclear-accident

Six decades after Britain’s worst nuclear accident, an oral history of Sellafield reveals what it felt like to live near the plant

#nucléaire